THE MARLBORO VOL XXXHf DEMOCRAT JULY 17,' 1908 MAN KILLED * IN TEE CITY FRANK BARR SHOT OLIVER EDWARDS *vo Negroes Fell Out bout "Cheating in Gambling--Barr Escaped Oliver Edwards was shot and almost instantly killed by Frank Barr near tho Coast Line water tank about eleven o'clock Satur day night. Coroner George N McCall being too unwell to huid the in quest, it was held by Magistrate CI) Kasterling Saturday night and Sunday morning, and the follow ing facts were brought out. Several negroes, including Barr, Edwards, Lol Cain. Kph John, H wi ry Buchanan, Willie Johnson, Pink Anderson and Mary Smith, assembled near thc water tank af ter tho train from Sumter passed Saturday night. Some of them were gambling and drinking. Barr' called Anderson oil and told him ho wanted to borrow his pistol; bc was going oft' in the country, and would return the pistol next morn ing Anderson let him have it. Barr then went to Edwards and the two sat down and went to gam bling, playing lfskin"ih the m...

THE MARLBORO DEMOCRAT VOL XXXHf BENNETTSVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1908 NO. 29 MAN KILLED * IN THE CITY FRANK BARR SHOT OLIVER EDWARDS ?VO Negroes Fell Cut bout "Cheating in Gambling Barr Escaped Oliver Edwards was shot and almost instantly killed by Frank Barr near tho Coast Line water tank about eleven o'clock Satur day night. Coroner George N McCall being too unwell to hohl tho in quest, it was held by Magistrate Cl) EaStcrlingSaturday night ami Sunday morning, and the follow ing facts were brought out. Several negroes, including Barr, Edwards, Lol Cain, Eph .lohn, 11 wi ry Buchanan, Willie Johnson, Bink Anderson and Mary Smith, assembled near tho water tank af ter tho train froth Sumter passed Saturday night. Some ol' them were gambling and drinking. Barr' called Anderson oil' and told him bo wanted to ber row his pistol; he was going oil' in the country, and would return the pistol next thorn ing Anderson let him have it. Barr then went to Edwards and thc two sat down and w...

ALFONSO WINS DILLON RACES ROBERT JACKSON DIED AT CLIO FRIDAY Four Carloads, of Cantalopes Haye ?ecn Shipped from Clio to Date. Clio, July 13.~lno Clio Jok ers shipped tho first car load of cantaloupes ever shipped from hero; on the Uth and shipped four car loads up to Saturday night. 1 Miss Paulino Edens has returned home after spending a month with relatives in Cotton Valley in up per Merion. In Dillon on Friday it'was my pleasure to meet Mrs Zack Don aldson, ono Of Marlboro county's best ladies who is now a resident of Dillon. 1 also niet Mrs ? G Mills of WhiteV'illc, N C, one of tho towns eminent' ladies wlo was on a visit to her brother in Dillon. A fairly well lilied car load of Clio people attended the r?oes at Dillon on Friday. Several auto mobiles carried loads. All enjoyed thc races and were delighted to know that Marlboro county fur nished thc' fastest horse in Walter Drake's Alphonso. Miss Carrie Weill is spending her vacation at home, and will re turn to Kings business c...

THE MARLBORO VOL XXXII j BENNETTSVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, DEMOCRAT JULY 31, 1908 MEND WAYS OR * WEAR STRIPES SAYS MR. MURCHISON OF CAMPAIGNERS Ragsdale and EUerbe in Wsvrm Debate-Hodge*. Made Good Speech at Clio About 150 people heard thc con gressional candidates at Clio Fri day. They spoke from tho porch of thc Hotel Clio, and tho meeting was presided over by the chairman of tho Clio club, Jeff D Edens. There was very litttle cheering for any of tho candidates. The hearers stood and sat out on the ground and quietly listened to all the speeches. J R Coggeshall was first intro duced, and spoke, in part as fol lows: In my speech at Bennettsville, on July 1st, I made tho statement that, with the single exception of Camden, Bennettsville post oflicc paid more than any post office in the state for which an appropria tion had not already been made for a building; that there was one post office, the Abbeville oflicc, which w?s given a $50,000 appropriation in thc Inst bill, which paid less ...

AGED COUPLE HAVE REUNION or DECENDANTS TO FOURTH GENERATION Nr. ?nd Mrs. John S Fletcher Age 80 and 85, Have Numerous Progeny By J P Gibson Mr. Editor:-Knowing your eagerness for reports of all news items, and social functions of in terest and importance; I will therefore, as laconically as possible give an account of one of thc most pleasant, yet elaborate in all of its appointments, of any social enter tainment ever participated in by mo. It was only a family reunion, a notable, extensive and prominent connection of Adamsvillo township in upper Marlboro- John S Fletcher and his wife Ann Gibson Fletcher, her maiden name being Gibson, and the only aunt the writer has now living bc being 8<> years of agc while his good wife is 85. They have had nine children, four now living, 33grand-children living, and 22 great grand-children living and live great grand chil dren dead. .1 Clarence Coving ton of Clio, son of lili Covington, deceased, is thc eldest grand child, bc being 38. On ...

TOOK SILVER. LEFT BILLS HOME OF MRS. PATTERSON AT MCCOLL ROBBED A Lartfe Part of Watermelons and Canteloupes Lett in the Field McColl July 28th-Kev. J Free man is conducting a revival meet ing at Greenville, S. C. Some miscreant entered the home of Mrs. Minnie Patterson, of Iceman mill, (while tho family were at prayer meeting last week) and stole nine dollars in silver: $0 in greenbacks was left untouched. The act was doubly mean in that Mrs. Patterson is a widow, and thc mills arc working about half time. Mrs. Lynch of Cheraw, is visit ing her mother, Mrs. Harry Gad dy. Our patients, Thelma Hubbard and liuth Bristow, arc getting on nicely, thus far. Misses Butler and Bullock, trained nurses from Highsmith sanatarium have charge of tho cases. Archie Buckingham, from Ep worth orpanage, is visiting his aunt, Mrs. Carrie Plummer. Miss Mabel Freeman is visiting in Winsboro. Miss E Walsh, after a lengthy vacation, pleasantly spent with relatives in North Carolina, has returned to the ho...

Heart io Heart Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. Copyright, 190S, t>y Edwin A. Ny?. THE WOMAN WITH THE DSSH RAG. Do you know what ls the mont dan gerous occupation In the worhl? It may surprise you lo leam that lt |s the occupation of housekeeping. So 6ays Dr. Dickenson of Chicago, rm au thority In statistical studies. These are some of the dangers the house keeper faces every day: Death hy scalding. By gasoline or, gas explosions. By fatltng down dark stairways. ' By heat prostration. ! By insanitary sewerage. I By exhausting drudgery. By suicide caused hy the hopeless ness of daily routine. These are not fanciful dangers. ?Each of them has its frightful statis tics of fatality. At the battle of San tiago, of 10.000 soldiers. 300 were killed -a death rate of three-tenths of 1 per cent The death rate of women who keep house ls much larger. And, Rtrangely enough, while modern war fare reduces the percentage of deaths, labor saving devices in Hie household Increase the percentage. Gas nnd ga...

EDENS SELLS FIRST BALE BOUGHT BY STERNBERCER AT OVER 16 CENTS James Spears Easily Elected Cot ton Weigher-Other Clio News Clio, Aug. 10.-Mr. Jeff 1) Edens has succeeded in putting a halo of cotton on the market ten days earlier than over before. On Thursday the Otb this lirst bale, weighing 644 pounds was sold to the E Starnberger Co., for 10 3-8 cts. The election for cotton weigher passed oil quietly on Thursday morning. There was only two candidates, Jas. Spears and Jas. Amnions. Mr. Spears has been connected with the business the two last seasons in a manner so satisfactory that bc was easily slee ted over his competitor. It was thc pleasure of your cor respondent to work in the Bethle hem section on the 3rd and attend service on Monday night and en joy the lirst of a series of services being conducted by Rev. VV C Owens of the Little Rock circuit for the pastor, Rev. C M Peeler who will assist Mr, Owens at Lit tle Rock beginning on the 10th. Passing on to Catfish Baptist church ...

FOR SELLING CIGARETTES TO MINOR, D. N. FOWLER AND H. M AR. LEY INDICTED A Sensational Tilt Between the Attorneys Engaged in the Case D N Fowler and Herbe. * Mur ley must answer at thc next term of the circuit court for selling cigarettes to a minor. The case was sent up last Thursday by Magistrate C D Easterling. Thc prosecutor was A 0 Gilchrist, whoso son, Henly Gilchrist, 10 years old, bought the cirgaettes at Mr. Fowler's store. Marley was implicated because he was said to have stood for thc payment of young Gilchrist's account at Fowl er's. It seems that Henly Gilchrist was werking for Marley, a yening man employed by tho Hell tele phone company. Marley held back eight dollars of Ilenly's sal ary, claiming that he had stood for that amount at Fowler's. A O Gilchrist tried te collect the sal ly due his son, but was also told that Marley would not pay till the account at Fowler's was paid. Mr. Gilchrist, got a bill from Mr. Fowler for thc account, and found on it a number of items...

DEMOCRAT ?DAY, AUG 2!, 1908 STATISTICS OFINQUESTS GIVEN OTT^pjjiiERKF AND /^CORONER New Developments at the ICampaign meeting at McColl I campaign meeting # nt *Mc C^jo?? Friday was hold in McLnurin /ill, and about 300 people were .'present .Thoy cheered nearly cv eroody, but tho lion's share of tho applauso went to Sheriff Green 'and Adamsvillo's three candidates for thc legislature. Messrs, Hunch, Northan and Whittaker. *' . An incident which amused tho '-nu?ionco very much was, when Ii K Covington was making his speech, Mr. Wortham quietl^ walked ui} to i the stage and offered Mr CoVing . ton a small vial. Mr. Covington re fused it, and the audience broke into a storm of laughter and appl ause. After the noise subsided, u Mr. Northam explained that it was nothing but some vinegar for Mr. Covington's sore throat. The meeting was presided over by ll. h. Mclaurin, who introduc ed 10- I). Graham as the first speaker. Mr. Graham said that li? was fifty years old, which he thought was ...

LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATES SYNOPSIS VIEWS EXPRESSED AT BLENHEIM Want to Leave Lien Law to Vote of the People, and favor Prohibition Thos. A Bristow told some jokes about the present member's of tho legislature. Ile favored letting tho people vote on the lien law. Against the sale of pistols and car tridges. Opposed to homestead law. Opposed to allowing people to pay out when convicted of crime. They should bo put in chaingnng. The b?ind tigers have the best law in the county, because good men do not report them. J P Bunch said he did not ex pect P.) l?e a candidate till a few days ago. Said his gray head and beard admonished l im that ins time was short. Non-professional man from ordinary walks of life, here by roques! ?>? men "I* my t all "mg. In favor ot biennial sessions ol' thc legislature. The state gov ernment is becoming extravagant etil oil oho session ii year and stive from sci ?.ono to $85.000. Legis-1 lature ol which J was it member passed amendment for biennial sessions, ...